The number of functions does not decide the classification. The actual primary duties and level of authority must qualify.
Show the work within each function
Identify managerial decisions and operational tasks separately. Combining two hands-on roles does not automatically turn them into a managerial position.
The regulation asks whether the employee primarily manages the organization or a department, supervises and controls the work of other supervisory or professional employees or manages an essential function, has authority over hiring and firing, and exercises discretion over day-to-day operations. 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. The transferee needs one continuous year of full-time employment abroad in a managerial, executive, or specialized-knowledge capacity within the relevant preceding three-year period, while the proposed American duties must be managerial or executive. Ownership can help explain the corporate relationship, but the qualifying employment abroad, the actual business activity of both organizations, and the managerial or executive nature of the proposed U.S. role still need to be independently established. The question is whether the proposed US duties are primarily managerial or executive on the facts, and outsourcing shifts that inquiry toward who directs the providers, sets budgets, and decides the organisation's direction.