No. Explain the actual direction of management, policies, discretion and level of oversight, together with the applicant’s real duties.
Assess authority rather than geographic reach
Receiving reports or visiting units does not by itself establish primarily executive work. Identify who carries out ordinary operations and what the applicant decides. The qualifying organization, continuing business and required foreign-employment history must also be supported.
Canadian payroll records and T4 slips covering a continuous year within the last three, plus position descriptions and organizational charts for both roles that show subordinate supervisors, budget authority and hiring discretion. Common ownership and control by the same parent can make two operating companies affiliates for this purpose, but the relationship has to be proved from share registers and agreements rather than asserted from a shared brand or management. An internal grading structure exists for pay bands and reporting lines, whereas managerial capacity is judged on what the person supervises, hires, fires or directs, and at what level of the organization. Choose the route the records actually support rather than the one that sounds more impressive, and confirm separately that the qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship exists, since no amount of duty evidence rescues a case where it does not.