Brand manager, licensing at Maple and Moss Foods
About 70 minutes. Included in Plus.
A licensing partner wants its co-branded cereal bar pack approved before a printer's slot. The logo is too small, the partner's logo too big, the bar is short of fibre for its high fibre claim and short of granola for its made with claim. Review it, decide, and hold the claims when the launch date is used as pressure.
Skills: Review artwork against brand rules and a licence; Separate must fix items from advice; Check claims against evidence and a claims register; Give a partner clear, usable feedback under time pressure; Hold brand and legal standards against commercial pressure
Sustainability reporting analyst at Corvane Foods
About 80 minutes. Included in Plus.
Work out a food maker's electricity emissions for the annual report, both ways, with a site sold and a site bought during the year. Then stop marketing overclaiming renewable power, and restate the figure honestly when the certificates come in short.
Skills: Apply a reporting boundary to sites bought and sold; Calculate location-based and market-based Scope 2; Write a disclosure that claims only what the evidence supports; Restate a figure openly when evidence changes; Answer an assurance provider with evidence
Social media coordinator at Wren and Dale Garden Centres
About 65 minutes. Included in Plus.
The agency says photos are the garden centre's best posts and wants more of them. Measure October properly, plan November's biggest moments within budget and the advertising rules, and handle a complaint that is spreading in the comments.
Skills: Compare content performance like for like; Plan content around business moments within a budget; Follow advertising and giveaway rules; Handle a public complaint without promising or arguing
UX research assistant at Brightside Pharmacy
About 65 minutes. Included in Plus.
Eight people tested a new prescription reorder flow and most said they loved it. Work out what actually happened, rate each problem by the team's rules, report it honestly and hold the line when the team wants a better number or to drop an awkward finding.
Skills: Count usability results by eligibility and observation rules; Rate problem severity from impact and frequency; Separate observations from interpretations in a report; Defend a finding with evidence when a team pushes back
Environmental compliance officer at Halbrook Dairies
About 75 minutes. Included in Plus.
A monthly ammonia result is above the permit limit. Decide whether the permit has actually been breached, get a notification signed before the clock runs out, and handle a report of dead fish downstream without guessing or denying.
Skills: Assess compliance against a permit's statistical limits; Separate records from what people remember; Meet a legal notification deadline under pressure; Report facts without speculating about cause; Handle a public pollution report within the rules
Investor relations manager at Thornbury Industrial plc
About 75 minutes. Included in Plus.
The internal profit forecast has slipped below what analysts expect, and the company is in its close period. Work out whether the gap triggers the disclosure committee, answer an analyst and a big shareholder without signalling anything, and act fast when the share price moves for no reason.
Skills: Calculate consensus by a defined method; Recognise when a forecast gap triggers disclosure governance; Decline investor requests in a close period without signalling; Spot signs of a leak and escalate at once; Prepare announcement questions and answers within published information
Duty operations controller at Skerry Air
About 80 minutes. Included in Plus.
Fog has held twelve morning flights and three crews whose duty limits are running out. Build a recovery plan that stays inside the limits without leaning on captains' discretion, look after the passengers, and replan when an island airport says it will close early.
Skills: Rebuild a flying programme within crew duty limits; Choose which service to protect when not all can run; Refuse to plan on discretion under pressure; Arrange passenger care and priority help through the right team; Replan quickly when a new constraint arrives
Data protection assistant at Fernhill Gyms
About 75 minutes. Included in Plus.
A member banned after a gym floor incident has asked for all the data held about her, including the names of who complained. Work out the real deadline, decide what is disclosed, redacted or withheld, write to her, and keep the record.
Skills: Work out a statutory deadline from the facts of receipt; Decide disclosure, redaction and exemptions record by record; Weigh a third party's interests against the requester's right; Write an honest response that withholds without revealing; Keep an accountable decision record
People advisor at Fenwick & Hale Insurance
About 55 minutes. Included in Plus.
Run the monthly absence review for one team, advise a team leader who wants to start a formal process for the wrong reasons, and arrange a fair stage 1 meeting for someone who does meet a trigger.
Skills: Apply attendance triggers using the policy, not the export; Advise a manager on disability and reasonable adjustments; Push back on a manager within your role and escalate; Arrange a fair formal meeting with correct notice
Clinical research coordinator at Hallam Road Clinical Research Unit
About 80 minutes. Included in Plus.
Fourteen trial participants to check before the monitor arrives. Find the visit and eligibility deviations, report a major one honestly while the investigator and a nurse push for a softer version, then beat the 24 hour clock on a serious adverse event without making a medical call.
Skills: Check participants against a protocol; Report a deviation honestly and on time; Protect source records under pressure; Meet a safety reporting deadline; Stay inside delegated authority
Legal operations assistant at Kittering Homes
About 60 minutes. Included in Plus.
A supplier has sent back your company's contract with fifteen changes and the sales team wants it signed by Friday week. Sort the changes against the playbook, escalate what you cannot agree, and answer the supplier without giving away more than you may.
Skills: Review contract changes against a playbook; Spot a change of meaning hidden in a definition; Escalate with a clear risk and recommendation; Negotiate in writing within your authority
Paralegal at Ashby Kerr Solicitors
About 55 minutes. Included in Plus.
A client has sent sixteen documents for an employment tribunal claim and wants the damaging ones left out. Review each for relevance and privilege, raise the hard calls with the solicitor, and draft the list, explaining kindly to the client why a manager's message has to go in.
Skills: Decide relevance against the issues in a case; Recognise privileged and without prejudice documents; Escalate a legal question instead of deciding it; Explain a disclosure duty to an unhappy client
Events coordinator at Scottish Society of Civil Engineers
About 55 minutes. Included in Plus.
The venue needs the final dinner numbers by noon. Work out who will really be there and what the contract will cost, give the venue exact numbers and allergies, then deal with late guests and an honest answer about nut safety.
Skills: Work out final event numbers from bookings and terms; Use a contract's terms to make a cost decision; Pass dietary and allergy information accurately; Keep extra costs and promises within authority
Farm assistant, grain store at Hollins Farm Partnership
About 55 minutes. Included in Plus.
Eight lorries are booked for this week's wheat. Check every bin against the contract, decide what needs drying or checking and what that costs, and tell the merchant honestly what is coming.
Skills: Check stored grain against a contract on every measure; Spot a risk in a trend, not just a reading; Compare the cost of acting now with the cost later; Change bookings honestly within authority