Northumbria graduates move into Greggs jobs

Four students from Northumbria University’s Newcastle Business School have secured jobs with high street bakery firm Greggs upon graduation.

Hannah Casey-Burnett, Lewis Calvey, Will Forster and Lewis Blakey studied on the Leadership and Corporate Management Course which included a two-year paid placement at the firm.

The four have now taken up management roles at Greggs’ North East headquarters in Jesmond.

22-year-old Hannah Casey-Burnett, said: “Completing the degree has been hard work and you do need a lot of drive and ambition, but it has also been an amazing opportunity which I have loved.

“Working at Greggs has also given me incredibly valuable experience in the work place, and it has allowed me to build up key relationships across a diverse workforce, from front line staff in the shops to the operating Board of Directors.”

Julie Nowak, management development manager at Greggs, said: “We run these undergraduate placements in parallel with our own management trainee programme and it is credit to the calibre of the Newcastle Business School students that there is absolutely no difference between them and our more experienced graduate managers.”