Centene Company Dedicates New East Coastline Campus in University City

Mecklenburg County, NC – Centene Corporation held its East Coast Campus Devotion currently. In July 2020, Centene announced it had picked Mecklenburg County as the long run property of its new East Coast headquarters, generating a lot more than 3,237 new employment.

Centene is investing a lot more than $1 billion to create a point out-of-the-artwork corporate campus in the University Town neighborhood. The campus will property 3,200 staff members for the FORTUNE® 100 company and capabilities an on-web-site daycare heart and company “university” for skilled progress. The campus will incorporate two business office properties, a knowledge center, and the company college center.

The creation of the East Coastline Campus delivers roles in know-how, functions, purchaser provider, finance, human means, clinical administration positions, and other company positions with an regular once-a-year salary of $100,089. Much more than 1,000 of the positions are operations roles with an regular salary of $63,000.

With Centene’s determination of 3,237 jobs and additional than $1 billion in funds investment, the task is the largest in the record of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Company Investment Grant software by careers and funds expense. At the time of announcement, it was the major economic advancement venture in North Carolina by job creation due to the fact the Work Advancement Investment Grant program commenced.

“Mecklenburg County is thrilled to welcome Centene Corporation’s East Coastline Headquarters to Charlotte,” said George Dunlap, Chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. “We are also similarly fired up to see how the addition of this Fortune 100 Firm will positively effects the inhabitants we provide as new task options develop into readily available as a consequence of the County’s investment.”

Centene is a overall health treatment administration business that delivers managed treatment answers for 23 million people throughout the state and global markets. The company was founded in 1984 as a nonprofit Medicaid system by a previous medical center bookkeeper and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Centene is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Gals symbolize 75 per cent of the total workforce, with almost 50 % in supervisory positions, and much more than 50 p.c at the director stage and higher than. In excess of 40 percent of Centene’s leadership identifies as a human being of color, along with 50 % of their total workforce. Centene was also a short while ago detailed as a single of the Very best Destinations to Function by the Human Legal rights Marketing campaign Foundation after earning a excellent rating of 100 per cent on their Corporate Equality Index (CEI). 

The venture was a collaborative energy between Mecklenburg County, the City of Charlotte, the North Carolina Office of Commerce, the Financial Advancement Partnership of North Carolina, the North Carolina Standard Assembly, North Carolina Local community College Program, Duke Strength, University City Companions and the Charlotte Regional Enterprise Alliance.

In excess of the earlier three decades Mecklenburg County and the Town of Charlotte have collaborated on economic enhancement jobs such as Lowe’s, Microsoft, Stratifyd, LendingTree, AvidXchange, Far better.com, Honeywell, Chime Answers and some others. Including Centene, the Metropolis and County have aided convey a lot more than 9,000 careers and $1.47 billion in money financial investment to the group because drop 2018. 

The mission of the Mecklenburg County Business of Economic Progress (OED) is to give sources to the business communities with the functions of attracting, retaining and expanding employment opportunities for County people. We attempt to stimulate the community economic system and extend the community profits and property tax foundation, when protecting a positive equilibrium involving growth, social fairness, and the financial system. Locate out a lot more about OED’s systems and tasks at oed.mecknc.gov. 

Media Get in touch with:  Tammy Thompson, Public Information and facts Specialist, 705-577-2587, [email protected]   

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