Laboratory Automation​/Transformation Lead

Catalyx is seeking a Digital Laboratory Transformation Lead to join our team and work on our customer site in Switzerland.

Catalyx is a machine vision and automation company that integrates technology and people to help global manufacturers and logistics companies achieve next-generation levels of quality and throughput. For over thirty years, the minds behind Catalyx have been at work maximizing operational processes across highly regulated industries by inventing new technology applications and supporting companies with technical experts. With 9 global offices, over 550 team members, and 3,000 projects under our belt (and counting), we have the capabilities and reach to solve unique process problems at scale – and the vision to keep doing what’s never been done before.

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Catalyx is a trusted partner in delivering world-class lifecycle services to regulated and high-risk end markets. With a relentless commitment to innovation and excellence, we partner with life science and other highly regulated organisations, to empower them to enhance efficiency, and drive success. As part of this commitment, we are continuously developing our on-site teams to support the advancement of customer operations.

Location: Switzerland

Environment: Automated pharmaceutical laboratories

Working model: Primarily customer-site based

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Lab Automation & Digital Laboratory Business Analyst / SME to support the digitalisation, automation, and integration of pharmaceutical laboratory operations across drug discovery, development, and testing environments in Switzerland.

The role will bridge laboratory operations, automation, and IT, helping define and deliver scalable solutions that connect laboratory instruments, automation platforms, and digital systems, including LIMS, ELN, and SDMS, to improve data flow, reduce manual hand-offs, and increase operational efficiency.

This highly customer-facing role will serve as a key technical and business interface between scientists, IT, QA, internal stakeholders, and automation delivery partners. The successful candidate will combine strong lab automation and digital laboratory expertise with the communication, influencing, and project leadership skills required to translate laboratory needs into scalable technical solutions and drive successful implementation.

• Help define requirements for network architecture & segmentation, LIMS/SDMS/ELN, Scientific Layer, AI/ML use cases, and systems integration framework requirements.

• Review vendor-partner produced design architecture, interface documents, functional specifications, configurations.

• Serve as External SME and Primary Point of Contact for the customer across the vendor-partner landscape.

• Assess the current laboratory business processes, technology, automation and systems landscape.

• Map laboratory workflows, systems and data flows.

• Identify gaps, manual interfaces and opportunities for integration.

• Identify and prioritise opportunities based on business value, technical feasibility and customer needs.

• Drive implementation of agreed digital and automation initiatives.

• Work across laboratory automation, instruments and digital systems.

• Understand how automation platforms and laboratory systems interact.

• Identify opportunities to integrate instruments, automation, LIMS and other laboratory systems.

• Translate laboratory requirements into clear technical requirements.

• Work closely with automation engineers and technical specialists.

• Ensure solutions are scalable and aligned with the customer's existing technology environment.

• Act as the primary…