The correct answer is A because Salesforce Life Sciences Territory Management batch jobs can be scheduled with an hourly frequency. Salesforce Help for running Territory Management jobs states that, from the Life Sciences Commercial Admin Console, the job can be scheduled hourly, every selected hours, by selecting the hour from the dropdown. This confirms that hourly scheduling is a supported automatic execution option for Territory Management batch jobs.
Territory Management batch jobs are important because Life Sciences territory configuration affects field execution, account alignment, provider access, and downstream engagement processes. Scheduling these jobs automatically helps ensure that territory-related processing runs on a predictable cadence without requiring administrators to manually start each batch job. When the question asks how often the jobs can be scheduled to execute automatically, the available option that matches Salesforce's documented scheduling capability is Hourly.
Option B, Every 12 hours, may sound plausible because some enterprise batch processes use longer intervals, but it is not the best answer because Salesforce's documented configuration describes hourly scheduling and selecting the hour interval. Option C, Monthly, is also incorrect because monthly execution would be too infrequent for many territory-management operational updates and is not the option reflected in the documented batch-job scheduling guidance. Therefore, the consultant should identify Hourly as the correct scheduling frequency.