No. Assess the actual managerial or executive work and the other L conditions. Technical leadership and management must be explained through the facts.
Identify the primary work
Describe decisions, supervision or function management alongside experiments and other delivery work the applicant performs. A senior scientific title cannot answer how the role is actually carried out.
Identify unassigned tasks and work the applicant continues to perform. A low-cost plan is not automatically disqualifying, but a budget assigning no one else to routine delivery can contradict the assertion that management is primary. Separate technical influence over a project's direction from formal authority over personnel, since leading a team on scientific grounds is not the same as managing the people who carry it out. Identify who conducts performance reviews, approves time off and makes staffing decisions for the group, because those responsibilities point toward management rather than toward peer collaboration. Ask how much bench work, writing or direct experimentation the applicant still performs personally in a typical week, and how that balance has shifted since the position was created, compared with reviewing, assigning and approving the work of others. Confirm who controls the departmental budget, equipment purchases and space planning, since a title carrying scientific prestige does not by itself show control over resources, personnel or facilities. Document how decisions move between the applicant and any supervising committee, distinguishing recommendations the applicant merely makes from approvals the applicant alone can give without further sign-off.