February 12, 2025
The secret to a thriving career is having access to the right opportunities. At any one time, Danaher has more than 1,400 open roles across multiple high-impact industries, with more than 15 businesses on six continents. Based on her own experience, Marcy Engelstein, VP of Marketing at Pall (a Danaher company), is a strong believer that Danaher is the place to find those opportunities.
During a recent discussion, Marcy shared how joining Danaher was a catalyst for her success.
I spent my first 10-12 years in academic research mostly around genetics and genomics topics. I worked at Harvard, MIT, and Mass General Hospital. I’m most proud of the fact that I was part of the global team that helped sequence the Human Genome in the 90s.
From there, I moved into an R&D leader role at Millipore Corporation (a competitor to Pall Life Sciences). I was there for 15 years, in various roles across R&D, project management and marketing before joining Beckman Coulter (a Danaher company) in 2014 as a Global Senior Marketing Manager for the DNA sequencing services business.
I have been with Danaher since 2014. I started at Beckman Coulter and then took a role at Danaher Diagnostics, then at Leica Biosystems, and finally at Pall, where I am today.
My first internal move came about in an interesting way. I met with a colleague who was starting up an innovation team at Danaher. Her team’s goal was to look at the impact of new technologies and market shifts over a longer horizon (about five to 20 years), to identify opportunities or threats to our business and help Danaher companies prepare for what may come in the future.
Her team’s objective was very intriguing to me, so much so that I suggested she would need to add marketing muscle to her very technology-heavy team, and when she was ready, she should reach out to me. That actually happened about a year later. I was in that Danaher role around three years and really enjoyed it; but I missed having a more near-term impact. With that in mind, I set my sights on returning to a marketing role with product and sales support responsibility. While facilitating a DBS (Danaher Business Systems) course, I met an associate who connected me to a role in Leica Biosystems (another Danaher company) as Marketing Director for Staining Reagents.
While I was at Leica overseeing marketing for staining reagents, Pall reached out to me via Danaher Go (a program that helps Danaher hire from within). Pall’s Aerospace business unit was seeking its next head of Marketing. At first, I was skeptical since the Aerospace market was very unfamiliar to me. My career had been centered on life science and diagnostics businesses. What convinced me to join was the challenge and opportunity of the role, the passion and collaborative nature of the associates I met through the interview process and the comfort of knowing I was already familiar with the DBS tools and business processes I would need to excel. Plus, having been at a Pall competitor for so many years, I felt my knowledge in the filtration space would support my transition.
Danaher offers the Danaher Go program which encourages associates to explore roles across Danaher confidentially. Through the program, associates can explore potential new roles and it has given me the confidence to explore new opportunities that stretch my skills. This, along with networking with other associates while facilitating Kaizens, helped me move between different roles at Beckman, but also helped in my move from Beckman to Leica Biosystems and then to Pall.
With upcoming retirement, and soon-to-be empty nesting, my husband and I plan to relocate from Massachusetts to the Colorado mountains. I have come to love hiking, skiing, biking—anything outdoors—which were not activities I participated in growing up. Our intent is to be outdoors every day, doing some fun and active endeavors.