NANCY PIERCE
Eric Steigerwalt, MetLife Inc. executive vice president
More than 100 MetLife Inc. employees will report to their first day of work in Charlotte on Wednesday ? but about 75% of them already call the Queen City home.
MetLife, the giant insurer relocating 1,300 jobs here, says its first batch of workers includes three-fourths new hires from the Charlotte area. The other 25% are relocating here from elsewhere, including many from MetLife offices that will shutter in other places.
The breakdown was a key point of emphasis when I spoke to MetLife Executive Vice President Eric Steigerwalt earlier today. After all, MetLife is receiving an incentive package valued at more than $100 million, paid mostly from rebates on employee income taxes, for hiring here. So no doubt its expected to hire locally.
"We have been thrilled with the talent that we're seeing, the resumes we're seeing," Steigerwalt says.
MetLife announced in March it would relocate 2,600 jobs to North Carolina, split evenly between a new retail insurance headquarters in Charlotte and a technology campus near Raleigh. The Charlotte jobs will average $58,000 in annual wages.
Steigerwalt moved permanently to the Charlotte area two weeks ago. His executive team is in the process of relocating, too.
He says about 250 Charlotte job openings are still posted on the company's career website, inclduding vacancies in product development, sales, marketing, finance, legal and operations.
"We want to see as many resumes as we can see," he says. "Anyone who is interested in working for this great company, now is the time to get to us."
Steigerwalt will address 110 new hires tomorrow as they begin their first day of employee orientation. Most are based in a temporary office in Ballantyne Corporate Park. Some are in SouthPark.
Adam O'Daniel covers banking, entrepreneurs and technology for the Charlotte Business Journal.
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