Identify the business component being managed, the applicant’s actual authority over it and the duties delegated to others. Budgets, staffing decisions, objectives and escalation responsibilities can supply relevant evidence. No single item is a universal checklist: the complete proposed role must support managerial or executive capacity.
Define the component, then the authority
Describe the region as a unit of the organisation: which sites, what they produce, and how their performance is measured together. Then show what the applicant decides for that unit as a whole. Function management can qualify where the facts support it, so a regional role built around a process rather than a headcount is not excluded.
Where authority is shared with another manager, present that honestly and let counsel assess it. Describe the region as a unit of the organisation before describing the person: which sites, what they produce, and how their performance is measured together. Then set out what the applicant decides for that unit as a whole, using budgets, staffing decisions, objectives, and escalation responsibilities as the evidence.
No single item is a universal checklist, and the complete proposed role must support managerial or executive capacity. Where authority is shared with another manager, present that honestly and let counsel assess what it supports rather than removing it from the description.