No. Determine whether the applicant primarily manages or executes the underlying work. A long list of responsibilities does not establish their managerial character.
Explain how each function is actually performed
Identify the decisions the applicant makes and who handles operations. A function-management claim needs senior authority over an essential function. First-line supervision of nonprofessionals alone does not meet the standard.
A person who directs thirty dock workers and drivers feels unmistakably managerial in ordinary language, yet the definition specifically excludes first-line supervision of employees who are not professionals unless the supervised staff are themselves supervisory. A carrier's dispatch and freight-acceptance function is plainly essential, and a manager who decides which loads are taken, negotiates owner-operator contracts, sets rates and controls the function's budget is managing it, even though the dispatchers are clerical employees and the drivers are contractors. Within the relevant preceding three-year period, the transferee generally needs one continuous year of full-time work physically abroad for a qualifying organization in a managerial, executive, or specialized-knowledge capacity; the American position must be primarily managerial or executive. If the answer is managing schedules, negotiating with distributors, approving quotes, hiring a second crew and reviewing the subsidiary's financial results, the role is managerial and the number of subordinates matters less than the level of authority.