Amwins is the largest wholesale distributor of specialty insurance in the U.S., serving brokers with property, casualty, group benefits, and reinsurance products alongside underwriting, claims, and actuarial services. The tech stack is heavily Microsoft and Salesforce–centered with emerging Python and SAS analytics capability—typical of insurance operations scaling compliance and customer management at enterprise depth. Hiring is sales-weighted (77 of 178 active roles), paired with underwriting and implementation teams, reflecting a business model that wins deals through people-intensive broker relationships and then executes complex enrollments and risk placement.
Amwins operates as a wholesale broker-to-broker distributor, sitting between carriers and retail insurance agents. The company moves a diversified mix of specialty risks—commercial property, casualty, group employee benefits, and reinsurance—along with complementary services: product underwriting, premium administration, claims handling, and actuarial consultation. At 5,001–10,000 employees headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the organization maintains steady hiring across sales, underwriting, and operations, with active work on enrollment automation, underwriter development, carrier integrations, and benefit platform configuration. Core friction points revolve around complex account placement, carrier proposal accuracy, premium adequacy modeling, and retention of large group accounts.
Amwins runs on Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange), Salesforce for CRM, AWS database services, SQL, Python, and SAS for analytics. Power BI, ServiceNow, and RingCentral support reporting and operations.
Active projects include process automation for enrollment and implementation, underwriter development, test automation, carrier data feed integration, benefit plan configuration, and sales strategy execution to grow prospect pipelines and account retention.
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