Marsh McLennan Agency

About

Montana Leadership: Sarah Walsh, CEO; Allison Johnston, COO/CFO

Year Founded: 1972

Location: Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula, Polson, and Stevensville with additional offices in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

Full-time Employees: 750+

Marsh McLennan Agency Northwest Region (MMA NW) (which acquired PayneWest Insurance in April 2021), operates in 26 locations across Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, employing more than 750 professionals, including teams that specialize in highly complex insurance market niches such as healthcare, construction, transportation, education, agriculture, hospitality, public entities, and banking. MMA NW offers insurance products and services including risk mitigation, claim management, and cyber insurance for tech companies, combining the personalized service model of a local broker with the global resources of the world’s leading professional services firm, Marsh McLennan.

The firm truly lives its mission to be a meaningful, contributing partner to the communities it serves. For each significant workiversary, MMA NW makes donations to the charity of the employee’s choice. In addition to charitable gifts, the company emphasizes volunteerism throughout the year with several different initiatives including Community Month during which employees help with different local organizations such as food banks, Ronald McDonald House, Habitat for Humanity, etc.; Volunteer Time Off (VTO) where employees are paid to volunteer at non-profit organizations dear to them; Random Acts of Kindness where colleagues are given money to go out in their communities and make someone’s day by buying them a cup of coffee, picking up their tab at the grocery store, or any of the endless ways to be kind and helpful.

MMA NW has received many workplace accolades over the years, the most recent in 2023, where they earned a Top Workplaces USA award issued by Energage. 

In addition, MMA NW strives to hire employees who share its mission of service to clients, colleagues, and communities (their 3Cs) as well as values of respect, accountability, balance, integrity, excellence, and humanity. In addition to roles specific to insurance, the company also hires for roles in accounting/finance, analytics, claims, human resources, marketing, recruiting, risk control, sales, and more. MMA NW also offers a summer internship program to help students hone their professional skills.