Not necessarily. The consulting category generally covers advisory work delivered to a client who retains operational control; a role built around direct supervision, budget authority, or ongoing operational decisions functions differently. The actual balance of advisory versus operational duties needs review rather than assuming the consulting title covers everything. The credential alternatives include a baccalaureate or licenciatura degree, or documented equivalent professional experience: five years as a management consultant or in a specialty related to the consulting agreement.
Look at who holds operational control
Ask whether the applicant would be recommending changes for the client to implement, or would be the one implementing and managing them directly on an ongoing basis. The second pattern reads as operational management rather than advisory consulting, even where the offer letter uses consulting language throughout. This distinction should be resolved with specific detail about supervisory and budget authority before assuming the classification is settled.
Two further conditions sharpen that enquiry. The classification contemplates prearranged professional work for a U.S. employer and does not accommodate self-employment, which matters here because consulting engagements are frequently structured through the consultant's own company; establish who the engaging entity is and whether the applicant or their family owns or controls it before the duty question is even reached.
And the authorization relates to the particular employer and the position described, so a role that is genuinely advisory today but expected to absorb operational responsibility within a year is a question worth raising now rather than at the point it happens. Hypothetical example: a consultant engaged to redesign a warehouse network is asked what happens after the recommendations are delivered, and the honest answer — that the client expects the same person to run the transition and manage the team through it — reshapes the analysis considerably more than any wording in the current offer.