Huntington Beach-based Triad Financial Corp. plans to move much of its West Coast call center to a Dallas-area suburb.
Laura Buser, a spokeswoman for the auto financier, said 270 jobs are set to move to the company’s North Richland Hills, Texas, call center from its current spot at 7755 Center Ave. in Huntington Beach.
Roughly 300 people are set to stay at Triad’s other Huntington Beach office.
The Texas site is set to grow to 900 workers with the shift of jobs, Buser said.
“The headquarters will stay in Huntington Beach,” she said. “This is truly an expansion in Texas.”
With the expiration of a lease in Huntington Beach, Triad officials surveyed several possible spots to relocate the call center and picked Texas because of the facility it had there.
The 270 jobs will be moved to Texas by January, Buser said.
Triad, a privately owned auto lender that used to be a Ford Motor Credit private unit, focuses on the subprime auto lending market, or borrowers who do not qualify for traditional financing.
The lender was purchased in May by an investor group of Dallas banker Gerald J. Ford, investment bank Goldman Sachs & Co. and Chicago private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner LLC.
Ford is chairman of Triad, which works with 5,000 automotive dealers across the country and has nearly $4 billion in auto loans.
