To view our videos, you need to
enable JavaScript. Learn how.
install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now.

Then come back here and refresh the page.

CHARLOTTE – Premier, a health care alliance company, announced Wednesday it will move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, adding 300 new jobs over the course of five years.

The move is expected to also expand the company’s partnership with North Carolina hospitals and better manage their costs.

“We need people who have clinical understanding,” Premier president and CEO Susan DeVore said. “We need people who have worked in hospitals. We routinely post those jobs. It’s a wide range of salaries.”

Premier and its 1,200 employees in Charlotte are emerging as an important partner with nearly 90 North Carolina-based hospitals. Since 2004, company leaders say they’ve saved hospitals more than $160 million by using massive machines to crunch data and make local health care more affordable and efficient.

But Premier’s corporate move to the Queen City comes with a cost. The state is giving $4 million in a job development investment grant should the company maintain its promised workforce over the next nine years.

Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte are also part of the economic incentives package to relocate Premier’s corporate headquarters to Charlotte. Both groups will vote on the incentives at their meetings in the coming weeks.