The main problem with scoring a management job is, that everyone wants to be the boss, and think they could do it better. So, the way to get it is to be good friends with the CEO.
And then they find out what it entails, being a manager and being butt buddies with the CEO.
In the past, you had project leads and engineers: the technical people who made it happen. They have been mostly replaced by managers, who need to manage, no technical knowledge required. Technical people should be cheap, or outsourced.
Two different groups, who talk about vastly different things among each other. And barely understand the other group. Which wouldn't be bad, as long as they respected each other.
There is little coordination happening.
Interestingly enough, if you look at Scrum and Agile, you see that those design stages have mostly disappeared: pick the next, small, short-term goal. Implement that. Repeat. Planning is only about how many FTE you need to finish the next part.
Cool for small stuff, not for serious projects.
Anyway, if you're good at the coordination and design, you first need to find a company where they see the need for those things. Which again requires that the CEO likes you. So, being hired as external consultant is often a requirement for that.
But in that case you can prove that you're actually good at what you do. Which is also a dangerous thing to do.
Getting to be buddies with the CEO is much easier.