Information technology quality assurance for WellCare Health Plans will be outsourced to Accenture, and as a result close to 60 positions at WellCare will be eliminated.
That move came last week as Tampa’s WellCare notified the state of Florida of its plans for layoffs, according to the Florida Department of Economy Opportunity.
Crystal Warwell Walker, director of corporate public relations for WellCare, said the transition will allow the company to “leverage best practices, tools and metrics.” The transition will occur over the next few months and be completed by mid-February.
“As a result, approximately 57 IT positions will be eliminated over the next few months,” Walker said. Two employees will stay to support Ohio-based Accenture once the transition is complete. “We will make every effort to retain impacted associates in other positions within the company as we make this transition,” she said.
The majority of employees affected by this layoff — 31 — are senior quality assurance analysts. Fifteen quality assurance analysts will be affected and the rest are supervisors, engineers and associates.
WellCare (NYSE: WCG) is among the largest public companies headquartered in Tampa, with about 5,200 full-time employees as of Dec. 31, 2013, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Date: November 02, 2014