Regional Operations Center & Economic Incentives Success
The Challenge
- Leading medical device manufacturer was seeking to relocate one of their largest business units into a lower-cost location to support their exponential growth.
- Needed to develop a business plan to support their envisioned regional operations center for over 1,400 employees.
- Targeted business units included management, patient care, customer service, collections, and medical claims processing.
The Solution
- Established employee profiles for each business unit based on skill sets, educational attainment, industry experience and applicant sources.
- Over 930 metro areas were filtered based on a complex process to identify 18 metro areas for in-depth evaluation.
- Developed a cost-per-employee metric used to calculate savings estimations.
- Identified 5 finalist metro areas that proceeded to further due-diligence and negotiations.
The Result
- Negotiated a lease for 150,000 square feet with concessions of $4.5 million.
- Negotiated an economic incentive package in excess of $14.0 million inclusive of cash grants, tax abatements, training grants and permitting fee waivers.
- Achieved an estimated $7.4 million in annual operating cost savings over existing operations.