Kate McCormack Head of Marketing and Commercial Operations, Bayer ANZ & Commercial Excellence Lead for APAC
About Kate McCormack
Kate McCormack holds a dual role at Bayer Pharmaceuticals as Head of Marketing and Commercial Operations for Bayer ANZ, and Commercial Excellence Lead for APAC. This involves leading a broad team of professional subject matter experts as well as new recruits, and building the capability of her function across APAC for the future needs of the organisation.
As a member of the senior leadership team for 4 years, over the past three years she has led the transformation of the organisation, from heavily process-driven and hierarchical, to an Agile, flat structure, where her own role as a leader has significantly shifted. This has taught her valuable lessons in her leadership journey, and she believes it has helped her understand what adds value as a leader in the 21st century.
Session Changing your leadership style can set you free: Lessons in adopting V-A-C-C Leadership
As a senior leader in a pharmaceutical multinational, Kate McCormack has successfully led sales, marketing, and commercial functions for several years. Here she shares some lessons learned in evolving her leadership style in an Agile organisation transformation, and how it accelerated behaviour change for her teams, but also had some massively beneficial side effects for her as a leader. As a functional leader, Kate has learned how to lead an organisation without leading the work, and discovered that this can lead to great outcomes.