Chief Executive or Managing Director (ANZSCO 111111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Chief Executive or Managing Director on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Chief Executive or Managing Director comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

IML assesses whether you held the most senior position in your organisation, reporting to the Board or equivalent governing body, not to another manager. With a highly relevant Bachelor's or Master's degree the pathway needs three years in a senior management role, at least two of them specifically as CEO or Managing Director; without that degree the same structure stretches to five years. IML also states it is unlikely that an organisation with fewer than fifty total staff would support employment experience at the required level, and that at least one year of the experience must be current within the last five years.

Where these applications come unstuck

Because you have no one more senior to sign your evidence, your Statement of Employment and Organisational Chart can instead be signed off by the Head of HR, but you must also supply audited financial reports, or an equivalent, showing your organisation's revenue and staffing for the last three years. Skipping that extra financial evidence, or submitting a chart that does not clearly show the Board relationship above you, is a common way this specific application stalls even when the years of experience are genuinely there.

An honest read on this pathway

This occupation sits on the MLTSSL and the CSOL in Migratio's published data, reaching the 186, 407, 482 and 494 visas — but not 189 or 485, which is unusual for an MLTSSL code and is logged as an unresolved data question rather than settled fact. Treat the published visa list as-is rather than assuming full MLTSSL reach. The assessment itself is squarely about seniority and governance, not job title: a Managing Director who in practice answers to a parent-company CEO is not this code.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Chief Executive or Managing Director is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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